Improved mode of pointing tags of shoe-strings



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

JAMES HILL, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 38,1309, dated April 28, 1863.

To all whom t may con/cern.,-

Be it known that I, JAMES HILL, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of the city and county of Providence, and State of Rhode Island, have invented a new and useful Mode of Pointing the Tags of Shoe- Strings; and I do hereby declare the same to be fully described iu the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of Which- Figures l and 2 are side views of a shoestring tag pointed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section of it, it being exhibited in such figures of a much larger size than it is usually made.

A tag is a tube of metal usually aixed to each of the end parts of a shoe-string in order not only to prevent the braid from becoming untwisted or undone at such end, but to render it easy to pass the shoe-string through the lacing-holes of a shoe.

Tags as heretofore made have been cut oft' square at one end.

In carrying out my improvement I not only cut each tag beveling at one end, but I conify or point it on the end so beveled, the same being in manner as hereinafter set forth.

Ain Figs. l, 2, and 3 is the tag or tube, a being the bevelcut, while b shows the part conied or rounded down into a conical form.

In making the tag, I usually out at its middle and into two equal parts a tube about double the length which I desire the tag to have, the out not being made across the tag square, but diagonally. At the same time the cut is made the end of each tag at the eut is to be coned down er eonically pointed, this being done by an implement or machine which is so constructed as not only to perform the diagonal cut ofthe tube, but at the same time to e'ect the conical reduction or swaying or compression of it necessary to produce a conical point having an elliptical orelongated opening on one side of it.

Thereis considerable advantage in the abovedescribed new mode of pointing the tag, because by means of the diagonal cut it is made longer than if cut straight across the double blank. This increase of length makes a material saving of metal in every thousand of the tags made in comparison to what would be JAMES HILL.

Witnesses R. H. EDDY, F. P. HALE, Jr. 

